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Winter and Age.
BY MRS. LTDIA H. SIGOURNEV.
Gret Winter loveth silence. He is old,
inO liketh not the sporting of the lambs, .
Xnr the shrill song of birds. It irketh hirn
Tofcear the-forest melodies; though still
He giveth license to the ruffian winds,
Thai, with black foreheads and distended cheeks.
Mutter hoarse thunders on their wretched path.
Helayshis finger on the lip of streams,
And rbey are ire, and stays the merry foot
Of the slight runlet, as it leapeth down,
Terrace by terrace, from t he-mountain's head.
He silenceih the purling of the brook,
That told his tale in gentle Summer's ear, '
All the day long reproachless, and doth bid .
Sharp frosts chastise and chain it, till it shrink:
Abash'd away. r
He sits , with wrinkled facp.
Like some old grand-ire, ill at eae, who -huts!
The rioisy trooping of the children out,
And, drawing nearer to the pleasant fire,
Doth settle on his head the velvet cap,
And bless his stars for quiet, once again.
Siern Winter drives the truant fountain back
Tothe-dark caverns of the imprisoning earth2,'
And uVad'neth, with his drifted snows, the sound
Of wheel and foot-tramj).
Thus it is, with man,
"When the chill winter of hts life draws oh.
The ear doth loathe the sounds that erst it loved,
Or, like 60tne. moody hermit, bar the door,.
Though sweetest tones solicit it in vain.
The eyebrows weary of the tarjtishedjcenes
-WJ old,wind-shaken4apestries of time,
While all the languid senses antedate
The Sabbath of the tomb.
The echoing round
Of giddy pleasures, where his heart in ydutH
Disported eagerly the. rushing tread
Of the great, gorgeous world, are naught to him,
Who, as he journeyethto a clime unknown,
Would to the skirts of holy silence cling,
And let all sounds and symphonies of earth
Fall hke a faded vestment, from the soul.
From the Ladies' National Magazine.
The Ifevv Years
Hark! from the bare and ghastly treeB
A wailing voice comes sad and low
The old year ;in' the jWbod liesydead,
His sepulchre the icy snow
Hut morning dawns, and o'er the 'hills' jM
A golden bursi of light is spread
Look out for lo !ihe New Year comes
A halo -glittering round his head.. b..f. t.
On being Slaudercd.
Not all they ay or tlo can mako, .
Myhead,-Mooth-or finger ache;- ;;
Nor mar myhape. nor scar my lace?
Nor put one feature out of "placeV "
Nor will1 ten' thousand, thousand, lies, .
jMiike-jne-less virtuous, learned-or-wise
The most, effectual xway to baulk .
. . . . I '
STjlOUDSBURG, xMONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1846.
.; , From the. Ladies National Magazine.
Woman's Iiaflncnce.
UY ELLEN AShTON
"TDear. Earnest, do lay aside your law pa
pers. 1 dee'laro I shall not suffer you," con
tinued his wife playfully, "to be devotee! to any
thing but myeli."
Her'h'usband looked up from the huge brief;
with the wearied look of one almost worn out
by incessant menial labor, but a smile instantly
came over his face as he met the eye of his
sweet wife.
a Then you' will break your promise, Belle,"
he said, "for you know I told you, when wc
married, that the law would be thereafter my
mistress, almost' as much as yourself."
' So you did: But you aie ruining your
healih by this clo.ie application, and, a,s I made
no contract for that, you must gie up these pa
pers, for to-night. You toil too hard: I did not
think of this when we married, or I would not
have been so ellih," she said with a sigh.
44 Nay, nay, J3elle," replied her husband,
pushing back his chair from the table, and af
fectionately taking the hand of his wifo between
both of his; 4,there is no need to reproach your
self. If I work hard it is because I am ambi
tious. For your sake I am resolved io win a
foremost place at the bar, and with it opulence;
but instead of repining at the toil that lies be
fore me, 1 bless God that you have been the
means to force it on me. What would I have
been but the idle spendthrift I was fast becom
ing, if I had remained my uncle's heir and mar
ried Helen Weston 1 li was my love for you,
which procured my disinheritance, made me
what 1 am I"
" Ah, had 1 but known it in lime had you
only told me that you sacrificed fortune for
me "
44 You would have refused me. You have
said the same a dozen times before, Belle, "and
1 know you too well to doubt your word. It
was for that very reason I did not tell you
Had I informed you that my uncle would cut me
off without a shilling if 1 married you, a mista
ken pride would have led you to cancel our en
gagement. And what would have been the
consequence! Neither of us would have bepn
happy ; for ours was not the love of children,
but of adults, an affection founded on a knowl-
euge ' eacn o.ners cuaracer auu ..... u .UUj-
i i i . i
islt and girlish caprice. wtten uoa nas mus
joined -us together, in spirit,, let no man put
asunder; and we should have been acting crim
inally had we broken our plight to gratify the
unreasonable and tyrannical whim of my uncle."
44 But he was your nearest relative "
f .VQranted. But had he been my father, it
would have been the same. No one goes fur
ther than I do in upholding the rights of pa
rents; and, as a general rule, their commands,
even on the subject of marriage, should be im
plicitly followed. Yet, in this case, there was
no, possible objection to you except your pov
erty. Now, as L look at the matter, this was
affair. If I choose to toil hard with you
fnr mv wife, instead of living a rich drone
as
Helen Weston's husbandt it was my business
and that of no other person whatever. Besides
I .knew she was not m lor a wtle, at least lor
me; vain, haughty, and ill-tempered, life with
her, would, have been a constant scene of bick
ering. Nay, do not try. to defend her 1 know
your good-nature would make the best of every
one I. will, if it please you, say no more of
her;. but J 4 hank heaven that you and-not Helen
is my wife."
44 Ah ! Earnest, how shall 1 ever repay you
for all you have sacrificed V
By saying nothing of it. Why, my dear, I
have sacrificed nothing for you. On the con-
trary,
you.
all I have of fame or lortune, 1 owe to
When I first won your love I was an
idle man of fas
hton, the heir expectant of tlious-
auds
a year : 1 spent my time at Hie theatre,
the billiard .rooms or the race-courso. wtth
out' being actually depraved, j was last becom
ing o. -Ji is rt" 1 nad ,aMe r,r ,ow llHsi"
pation, but i .was idle, find liitte hea-
il mv hands. I sought aniueuieni iiny anu
every wher.C Bel,veno, e.pa.h ol a rich
L .Sp, .l.ik with temotam.n. 1 waj,
lrHadv acauirinji a. passion for play when
vhanra.-threw mo U
jhc .circle where yu
"rowas a passing whim,4 theu.though.
nioved
bTlT-oJ believe h was a dtr fnrfereuce
oh the part or Providence, who will not suffer
a sparrow to fall without taking account of it.
I saw you and loved you. At first my gay
companions tried, to laugh me out of my pas
sion; but every day showed me more and more
of your amiability, modesty and correct princi
ples. You know the rest. I chose, wisely in
abandoning a fortune that would have made me
a sloth, and might have been my ruin."
44 But it pains tne when see you toiling thus.
You will injure your health by over-application.
Let us be contented with less."
44 Calm your. fears, dearest: My "health sus
tains no injury, and it is only for the past week
that my application has been so severe. This
mass -of papers belongs to a very complicated
and important case which: I was anxious to
master, for it. .will be; the reputation of any one
man thoroughly to understand it, and 1. consid
er myself fortunate in being retained. It shows
that my fame is extending and that I am no lon
ger a drone in society, but an honored and use
ful citizen. We should all do some good; we
owe it to our fellow creatures; and I feel far
happier since I have been able,' by "means of
my profession to redress injuiies and right the
wronged. 1 know you sometimes think I over
work myself, and that I do it for your sake; but
it is not wholly so: I toil now from a sense of
duty, and enjoy a supreme pleasure in doing so.
-I have done enough, however, for to-night 1
think I thoroughly comprehend the case so
we will lay aside the papers. But next week
1 shall expect you to be very proud of me, for
I intend to win this, .my first great cause, in
the teeth of the opinion expressed by our old
est lawyers : and if I do so, it will restore an
estate to a widow and her children, wlio have
been defrauded of it hy a miserly old man, who
does not hesitate to say he has the letter of the
will in his favor, and cares nothing for its spir
it. But wc shall see. If I win this cause, my
fortune will be assured, and then you need have
no more fears, as I see you now have."
Earnest Ormond has told his own story, so
well that we have nothing to add lo it. Three
years, had now elapsed since his union with Isa
bel Rowe.aud during, that period he had risen to
considerable eminence in his profession, sur
prising his friend by the facility with which
the idle man of fashion had been transformed
into the studious and business-like lawyer.; But
there had been a fund of latent energy hidden
under the gay exterior of Earnest, and whenj
his uncle disinherited htm, he applied himself
at once to the study of the law, supporting
himself out of a small legacy to which he was
entitled in his own right. Early and late he
was at h:s books; and, when the time came for
his examination, he was admitted to the 'bar
with the highest honors. His energetic appli
cation to his .laborious profession soon brought .
him clients. Gifted with great natural talents,
which hitherto had been allowed to. rust from
disuse, he speedily became distinguished: suits
of importance began to find their way to him;
and at .length, by the advice of one of the.oldest
and most sagacious members of tho bar; who
had been applied to but could not undettako it
in consequence of other business, ho was en
trnsted ,.wnh a case, considered well nigh des
perate, but one involving an immense amount
of property, and enlisting all the best feelings
of the heart in its favor. It was this caso to
which he had allude'd in the foregoing conver
sation with Ins wife. '
'4 Well,' Ormond, do you think you will be
able to do i-tlything to-day ?" said one of the op
posing lawyers ratlier snderingly, when he came
into court. 44 Y'ou tnighi as well own the weak
ness of your case and save us the trouble of
pleading:"
44 'Faint heart never won fair lady,' " retorted
Earnest, and bowing to the court, he said, 44 if
your htfn'or pleases, I will go on."
tie hail 'not spoken for mora than half an
hour," before 'he triumphant looks of the oppo
sing paity became changed to those of alarm ;
for 'So the astonishment .f all, he boldly assert
. - - -
ted that the case which they so relied on as a
precedent, wasj.selfjbad lawn
..Ka,dozen . instances in. the bop
was itself bad law, aud'eontra'dicted
bppks. He pro
ceeded to enforce this assertion. .whh such an
array of authority and loenjarge qn l.he.abstird
tty.of the irecj:diij wjih such cogency .of rea-
exchanged bet wectyh la w.yera? forhedefen-
dant, and notes were hurriedly written and sent
for books which were wanted for the purpose of
examination. The judge, who had shook his
head when Earnest announced his position,
now began to be all attention, and seemed pro
foundedly struck by the force of what the plead
er said. The news of the impression that Ear
nest was making soon spread abroad ; tha law
yers hurried in from their offices and from the
other courts, and the space both tnside and out
side tho bar became speedily crowded. The
subject was well calculated also for the display
of natural eloquence, and Earnest, in inveigh
ing against the hardship of the pretended rule
of law, by which a widow and her children
were reduced to beggary, in contradiction of
the plain meaning of the will, drew tears to ma
ny an eye. He sat down amid murmurs of ap
plause. 44 Well, gentlemen," said ?the judge, turning
to the opposite side, 44 what have you to say ?
I confess I think the case is sifted 'to the bot
tom 'and that, we have been all wrong. Unless
you can overturn Mr. Ormond's authorities I
shall instruct the jury to give a verdict in his
favor. - He knows more law than'all of us put
together."
The opposing attornies attempted to make a
defence, but they spoke, all the while, with a
consciousness that they were in the wrong.
As the judge said, Earnest had sifted the whole
mailer to the bottom. The result was a charge
from the bench in his favor, and a verdict from
the jury who did not leave the bos:.
So distinguished a triumph exceeded any
thing which had occurred in the memory of the
bar, and at once elevated Ormond to the front
rank of his profession. Before he left the
court-house, he. had been retained as consulting
counsel in a dozen cases of importance. From
the congratulations of his friends he broke loose
as soon as possible and hurried home. His
wife was waiting for him in their little parlor,
eager to hear the result, ye.t almost dreading to
ask it, for she had not her husband's confidence
of success.
44 1 have won. Give me joy, Belle. Did I
not say 1 would succeed V
The wife flung herself into his arms, and
burst into glad tears of joy.
44 Nay, weeping," said Earnest, 44 but I see
they are tears of joy," he continued, as his wife
smiled up into his face. And then, as the
cheers of the crowd, who had followed htm in
triumph home, broke on his ears he added, 4,see
what you have made of me ! I shall almost be
gin to think I' am a great man."
44 Ah! Earnest you know I have not made
you this."
44 But you have dearest. You it was that
woke me from my spell of indolence the ne
cessiiy of struggling to provide you a home
worthy of you, first taught me my own abilities
and wjthout your love to cheer me, in hours
of depression caused by hard study, I might
have given out long ago. But the goal is now
won. Dear Belle, your sex little knows the
influence it exerts. It has saved many a man
beside me, even though he has not had such an
angel of a wife."
Earnest fulfilled the promise he held out in
his first great case, and rose to be the leading
attorney of his native city, a member of Con
gress, a senator, a judge, and an ambassador
abroad. But he never ceased, whenever the
conversation diverged on his early struggles, to
turn to his wife with' a loving smile, and say
'that all he had, of fame or fortune, he owed to
he'i influence.
A Climax. 44 What are you doing my son?"
said a farmer to his boy Billy. 44 Smoking a
sweet fern cigar; I made it." 44 Throw it away
this minute : don't vou know that a boy who
smokes fern will sfn'oke tobacco, and if he
smokes tobacco he will drink rum, and if lie
drinks rum he will lie, and if he lies ho will
steal, and if he steals he will murder, and if he
murders he will be acquitted?" N. Y. Organ.
It is very common in the city' for
lawyers-and
htiiera. -when Ipavinir their office for a
short
' O "
lime, id ta"ck a notice, 44 back in fifteen minules
-igone to the P. 0." or 44 return at 3 o'clock
gouo io the court-house," &c. A certain' law
yer in New York a few days ago,.got in a muss
and some wag tacked a label on his office door
" gone to the lonibs ! back Mil JU, Uaya.w
30.
Kicking a Yankee. ;
Under this caption we sometimes since, gavo,
a story, 'illustrating the impossibility of-kicking,
a Yankee. The veteran Noah says: That ther
is no case on record of a Yankee having , been
kicked, nor, until ihe history of the last year of
the world's duration is written, will such a feat
be recorded.
We remember (says the 44 Veteran") a shtrp,
fellow named Doolittle, a Connecticut "exotic,"
who was .transplanted from Harvard University
to one of the Southern Stales, for the purpose
of assuming the editorial control of a violent
party paper, where no ono had ever , labored
with advantage for the party, simply because an
infinite quantity of pistols, and a multiplicity of
bowie knives, prevented the strenuous advocacy
of certain principles, and fettered the freedom'of
speech in an elegant style of efficiency.' Doo
little was highly educated was impetuous
brave ; yet, with the characteristic cunning of
his tribe, careful of his own interests. He took"
hold of the paper with the determination' to
make it serviceable 44 to the cause, and ser
viceable he did make It. The opposing candi
date was a bad fellow a duelist,. dram drinker,
a lover of 44 poker," and a decided votary of Ve
nus. Doolitile'did what no other editor dared
to do he said so. The day on which his ar
ticle appeared, the candidate" entered the' edito
rial chamber.
44 You are Doolittle the editor of "this pa
per .".holding a copy of the sheet in his hand.
44 1 am." '
44 Yoti have libelled and insulted me, and"
drawing a large knife 41 1 have come for your
ears."
44 1 beg your pardon," said Doolittle 44 1 am
a stranger to your customs, and perhaps Have
laken a course' which in this part of the coun
try is inexcusable. Such is, 1 think the tact.
Suppose we compromise the matter."
44 Very well," said the bluff Southerner; "Vl'll
kick you, and you shall makea full retraction."
44 You'll whail" said Doolittle, quietly v .,
44 Kick you." i "
44 You insist upon that little privilege ?"
44 1 am unalterably fixed in my determination."
44 So am i," said Doolittle, firing a horse pis
tol as big as a blunderbuss, and shattering tho
Southerner's right leg 44 not to be kicked."
He held his situation six months was stab
bed twice, shot three times, belabored with a
bludgeon once, thrown into a pond once, but
never kicked. During his six months' experi
ence he killed two of his adversaries. An ab
solute fact.
TIie-IIeaviestArgiiuieiit.
The excitement caused by tho Presidential
contest in 1840, is well remembered. Both
Whigs and Democrats strained every nerve to
elect their candidates-; and some of the' argu
ments at that time made use of to sway the
minds of voters were of the most substantial
kind. In the town of , in this state, was
one of those straight-faced fellows, ever ready
for a joke, but whose principles lie at the bot
tom of his pocket in heart a Whig, but inva
riably voted a democratic ticket, which he found
nailed upon the head of a barrel of flour oect
dentally placed, upon his front stoop the night
previous to election. Contrary to all usage.and
the expectations of his friends, Joe S , on
the first-day of election, walked up to the polls
and deliberately deposited his ballot for. Gen.
Harrison. Here was something unheard, of,
and great was the consternation thereat in the
ranks of the 4 democracy.' A deputation .soon
called upon him to know the meaning of his
conduct, and tosascertaiu 'the cause of his sud-
Fde'n desertion. 1 i
How could you leave your old friends-at this
time?' said the interrogator, 4 you know -how
certainly we counted on. your vo'c- DTd you
not find your barrel of flour upon your stoop ihi
morning ?'
4 Yes, to be sure I didsaid-Joe, with a know
ing wink ; 'but I found two barrels on myack
stoop .'' htorris Jerseymani
Many strangers are visiting Nauvoo, to pur
chase the property of the Mormons, who intend
to emigrate lo Oregon in the spring.
f ;A-man :w&s whipping his horse jnj.ouisville,
iKy.ilately, when the animal, fell onihimjiand
crushed him to death.
No.
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